no one was aware from the trump team that i was even there. it was private business. nothing to do with the u.s. government or the trump team or the transition team or anything else. what was the meeting about, then? future business. it was someone that the emiratis had done business with and said it would be useful for you to know. and that was it? that was it. and when people talk about whether there was a possible back channel or anybody all of that, you re saying, no, off the table? complete hogwash. i appreciate that and appreciate you answering my questions about it. i m amazed about the continued obsession with this when you have people dying in afghanistan, americans dying, let s figure out a way to cauterize the losses. all right. appreciate it. thank you. you bet. and next, outrage tonight after a google employee claims in a ten-page memo that women workers are neurotic and have a lower tolerant for stress. well, should he be working there?
right. as somebody that was extremely toll rant, especially with ivanka. exempt on housing where they can move into his builds. but you know what i mean? this was very surprising to me. and i actually thought because of him being more identified to me, with the moderate side of our party that he would that we had a chance to kind of pull more of the moderates into the spotlight and change, excuse me, the republican party brand as more of a kind of a tolerant, come one, come all. and that we re kind of being more open-minded. and then the lgbt. i think it depends on how you experienced him. i think if you were black in the 80s and early 90s and you experienced donald trump you kind of knew this was the guy. i was a republican most of my career. you know, i was socially liberal but hard on defense. i mean, i m right up there with coal lynn powell and we re both flaming liberals now. i mean, the party has shifted to this nativeist base of, you know, from the 1950s and 60s
rights, liberal, tolerant. and the newspapers, the big newspapers, the times, the washington post, have a reputation for being liberal. so he said, okay, except for radio, which the conservatives have always owned for something, a.m. radio, where is that market going to go? o reilly is gone. where are those viewers going to go? nowhere. he s just a cog in the machine. whoever they put in their did. you i m saying as long as th stay relatively consistent with that party line that you just laid out [ overlapping voices ] whatever i think of them, rush limbaugh has a certain kind of talent, whatever it is. well, they re not going to put up a sha lub. they re going to put up someone who is good. we also have to think of the advertising money. he had a large audience, but he was losing advertising money. at the end it s empty calories. that means losing consumers. correct. and that means women. if you have high ratings but nobody is paying for the commercials, some
on a caught in my office. i have a wife i love and kids i adore. i spend about 1500 plus nights away from my family. and it was sort ofime to reevaluate and recalibrate. sometimes what people say are really the story. sometimes it is a life changing moment and a mid-life decision making. the real question is what your tolerance for that kind of life is, and that can change over time. it is a difficult life. i admire people in the congress. i don t disdain them. but you have to make those calculations, some of which are political, about what your level of tolerant for that lifestyle is. i don t want to let you go without asking you about iran. there was a lot of confusion, but the letter as written
we have recognized israel in 1993 in the context not as a jewish state. well, it depends. if you want to give religion to states, then this is against our principles. i don t recognize islamic states. i don t recognize christian states. i don t recognize jewish states. a state is a state for all its citizens. it has to be democratic, inclusive, tolerant, and genuinely representative of all its people. you cannot give added value to any people because of their religion or ethnicity. we want a palestine that is totally democratic. we recognize the state of israel. it should be happy with that. it wants added conditions. let it go back to the u.n. and change its name and let it ask all the people who recognize it to recognize it again under a different name. doctor, what do you think the prospects of peace are under a president-elect donald trump,